Fiction-making can serve history because both are narrativization
Evidence
I think, strategically, we should use that, so that, in fact, the work of constructing new narrativizations of what is taken to be truth—in other words, history—can be helped by what is taken to be the field of nothing but narrative. Fiction-making can become an ally of history when it is understood that history is a very strong fictioning where, to quote Derrida, the possibility of fiction is not derived from anterior truths. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 245
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Hotman/Boulainvilliers counter-history: history as strong fictioning parallels the race-struggle narratives Foucault traced that gave groups representational agency. — connects to: Genre codes transform real history into naturalized myth selectively — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 791; Fiction is the construction of foreshortened temporalities substituted for real time. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 218; Historical fiction can mirror how human memory operates through leaps and loops. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1139
Broader Connections
- Genre codes transform real history into naturalized myth selectively
#expands(0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 791 - Fiction is the construction of foreshortened temporalities substituted for real time.
#qualifies(0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 218 - Historical fiction can mirror how human memory operates through leaps and loops.
#expands(0.72) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1139